Performance Test Life Cycle in DevOps - By Stijn Schepers

Stijn Schepers; one of my favourite speaker and blog writer who shares his knowledge especially on Performance Testing and DevOps concept. Today, I am sharing one of his latest article in which he explained the life cycle of performance testing in the DevOps world. With a simple and clear diagram, he described the full life cycle.    

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What is DevOps?

DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support.

How Performance Monitoring Will Change Significantly In 5 Years - By John Rakowski

Performance Testing is upgrading day-by-day as Performance Engineering where APM tools play a vital role. John Rakowski has written a future predictive article on Performance Monitoring. Refer the article link below to grab the knowledge on why performance monitoring tools are required?👇

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Type of Performance Test Defect - By Naveen Kumar

During Performance Testing, many defects are found which can be termed as bottlenecks. Performance Testing defects are usually different from the functional testing defects because they have moreover occurred at the network or server-side. As far as I am confident most of the clients do not have proper defect management for performance testing bottlenecks that lead extra time, effort and money when the bottleneck re-appeared in future releases. 

Leave this topic here only because today, I am sharing an article written by Naveen Kumar describing the category of Performance Testing Defects. This article will help you to understand the category and severity of the PT bottlenecks. Refer to the link and get the knowledge: 

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Mobile Device Performance Testing - By Neotys

Due to high usage of the internet and ease of doing the e-operations like transferring the money, ordering the food, playing the internet game, listening to the songs etc. all these daily needs are increasing the demand of the mobile. Now, a single mobile can do multiple things, not only on the internet but offline also like capturing the high definition images, video and audio recordings, storing and managing the contacts etc. 

Just like a server now it is mandatory to do a performance check of the mobile device so that it can perform well with the provided resources (hardware) and give a better user experience. But mobile device testing is not as similar to the server or application performance testing.

Neotys has published an informative white-paper on Mobile device performance testing and challenges. If you are involved in such kind of performance testing then this white paper will be a treasure for you. Refer to the white-paper link below:

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Network Emulation - By Graham Perry

One of the factor to impact the responsiveness of the website is 'Network'. We can not ignore the network related issues which could add some extra delay in the response. 

Graham Perry has written an article on the Network Emulation which is worth to read. Refer to the link👇

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Performance Test Life Cycle in DevOps - By Stijn Schepers

Stijn Schepers; one of my favourite speaker and blog writer who shares his knowledge especially on Performance Testing and DevOps concept. Today, I am sharing one of his latest article in which he explained the life cycle of performance testing in the DevOps world. With a simple and clear diagram, he described the full life cycle.    

LinkedIn Article

What is DevOps?

DevOps is the practice of operations and development engineers participating together in the entire service lifecycle, from design through the development process to production support.

NFR Basics - By Stephen Jenkin

A good article which covers the non-functional requirement for Performance Testing of an application. Stephen Jenkin described the NFR basics very well in this post. Read the article:👇

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Reason for decrease in Throughput

Degrade in throughput is a common issue in performance testing, but do you know what are the reasons behind it? What are the bottlenecks involved to decrease the throughput? Read the given article to understand 4 basic reasons which cause throughput degradation.

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Performance Test Result Analysis - Important Metrics

Performance Test Result Analysis is one of the important phases in the performance testing where experience, intellectuality and understanding are required. I have already published some performance test strategies in my blog which help to lead in a correct direction while doing performance bottleneck identification.

As a today's mantra, I am sharing an article related to performance test analysis which elaborates some basic metrics; can help you to understand the initial clue before kick-off the performance bottleneck investigation.

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Dynatrace Official Video for beginners

Dynatrace, an APM tool who provides fabulous support to identify the performance bottleneck, AI-powered analytics, full-stack discovery, pure-path coverage with code-level analysis and many more monitoring and profiling features. Many times I saw in the group chat, people were searching for Dynatrace training which is hard to get (at least nowadays) and then their search is ended with zero.

To help such a people, Dynatrace has published an official video for the beginners who want to start their career in the performance engineering field with Dynatrace. This video is also helpful for those who are willing to learn the APM tool and add a new skill in their resume. But yes; practical knowledge is must. So let's start your journey with Dynatrace official video which describes the basics concept and will help to grab knowledge of this wonderful tool. 

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Job Post #599

Performance Testing Positions

Location: Hyderabad

Experience: 5 - 6 years

Tools: LoadRunner with WEB/HTTP, TruClient, SAP-GUI protocols, End-to-end and Component level (API) testing experience required.

Contact to send resume: s_ry@yahoo.com

Company: Vena Portae Inc, Virginia USA

UI Testing: A Beginner’s Guide - By Testim

User interface testing, a testing technique used to identify the presence of defects is a product/software under test by using Graphical user interface. Such testing is as important as the other type of testing. 

Testim has described a detailed approach of UI testing in the article. As this is an out of performance testing domain topic but good to have the knowledge so that you can understand the basic purpose and its need.

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Open-source APM Tool list

Many open-source tools are available for Performance Testing like Apache JMeter, Gatling etc. Following the same trend, you can also get some open-source APM tools which do not need any single penny other than the hardware cost.

Henn Idan has written an article in which he has listed out some open-source APM tools especially for Java. This article is useful because you can get the information about freeware APM tool as well as you can compare their features to use them in your project. Refer to the below link to read the post:

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Podcast - Performance Engineering - Sajeesh Nair

Check out this podcast in which Sajeesh talks about his experience with performance engineering and a lot more other interesting stuff which will help you to enhance your performance engineering skill.

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Microservice performance testing under DevOps methodology

Microservice architecture, or simply microservices, is a distinctive method of developing software systems that try to focus on building single-function modules with well-defined interfaces and operations. The trend has grown popular in recent years as Enterprises look to become more Agile and move towards a DevOps and continuous testing. 

Neotys has published an informative article on Microservice performance testing under DevOps methodology along with Microservice architecture. Refer to the article to get full details: 👇

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Insight on JVM Tuning - By Sumit Nagal

Sumit provided good information on JVM, it's lifecycle, it's feature and GC algorithm etc. in his article. It is an informative article for a Performance Engineer to understand the JVM core and tuning concepts.

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JMeter Load Test using Azure Release Pipeline - By Anmol

Azure Release Pipelines helps to develop CI/CD using that your team continuously deliver software to your customers at a faster pace and with lower risk. You can fully automate the testing and delivery of your software in multiple stages all the way to production, or set up semi-automated processes. 

Apache JMeter is also integrated with Azure Pipeline to execute the performance test and monitor the application. A demonstration of the test execution via Azure pipeline is given in the video (created by Anmol). 

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RedLine13 Free Load Testing

There are typically many limitations that companies put on you when they offer free load testing. And when you reach the limit, you can’t test or you will need to start a paid subscription. Typical limits include the number of tests, the size of the AWS Servers, etc. 

RedLine13 has published the post to look at limits on free load testing tools and why RedLine13 may be the best fit for you.

Refer to the Link.

Job Post 263

Opening in Altimetrik for the Performance Engineer position.

Experience: 6 to 12 years. - Senior-level

Location: Pune/Chennai

Skillset:

1. JMeter - With Beanshell/groovy expertise.

2. Performance engineering: JVM tuning, Thraddump, Heapdump, Good knowledge on GC algorithms, DB tuning(Good to have)

3. Should have performance engineering experience on  Microservices based architecture. - Docker/ Kubernetes experience.

4. Must have worked on cloud environment like AWS, Azure

5. APM tool- Preferably New relic.

6. Must have front end profiling experience. - eg- Web page test/lighthouse/ Speedcurve or any other tool

7. Good to have - development experience using Java/python

Interested candidate can share profile to me- Prasanna Kothawdae on below email - pkothawade@altimetrik.com or kothawadeprasanna@gmail.com

Disclaimer: All the job-related post, ads and information are taken from different sources. The purpose of these posts is to provide the information about new job openings especially for Performance Testing and Engineering so that you can get the benefit to grow your career. People are requested to verify the company and contact person before sharing his/her personal as well as professional details. PerfMatrix is not responsible for any kind of fraud. PerfMatrix does not have any tie-up or legal and illegal connection with any company. In case you found any job post fraud, please write a comment in the comment section or email us @ gd.performance.tester@gmail.com

Measuring Browser Performance using Selenium and JMeter - By Shivaram Thirunavukkarasu

Every organization is moving towards achieving faster time to market. Agile methodology, Continuous Integration / continuous delivery (CI/CD) have become ubiquitous. Due to this, the boundary of performance testing moved far beyond the traditional performance testing tasks. Now a day client end performance testing is also as important as server-side performance testing. Shivaram has published an informative article on LinkedIn which provide the knowledge of measuring the client-side performance with the help of Selenium & JMeter tool. Refer to the link to read the article:

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Mobile Performance Testing with BlazeMeter and Apptim

Mobile App Performance Testing is now in demand due to the high usage of the mobile device and the internet. People are more interested to spread their business using the mobile app than the desktop site. 

This is a new opportunity for a Performance Tester to learn trending technology. Blazemeter has published an article on Mobile Performance Testing with Blazemeter and Apptim. 

Refer to the below link:

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Job Post 212

Performance/Non functional Tester Opening # Location: Gurgaon

Job Type : - Permanent

Experience : - 3 to 7 Years

Company : - Global Logic Gurgaon

Interview Mode : - Phone/skype

Candidates should have basic telecom knowledge with understanding of OSS/BSS systems.
Knowledge in Charging/Mediation system would be of added advantage.
Must have proven, high level of skills and knowledge in testing & validation areas (Non Functional Testing, Load, Stress and Performance)
Extensive experience in testing & validation both at node as well as solution level.
Experience of working in an Agile environment, and contribute in a cross functional environment
Understanding of large scale SW & HW systems performance issues.
Good knowledge of Linux/Solaris based systems
Knowledge of scripting languages such as Shell, Python
Recognized industry certifications in testing / validation / verification areas – ISTQB, ISQA, etc would be significant plus
Linux/Solaris administration knowledge would be good to have

Job Responsibilities

Testing and validation both at node as well as solution level (Non Functional Testing, Load, Stress and Performance)
Understand and resolve SW and HW systems performance issues

If interested, please share your resume in given email id: RAJAT.GL@GLOBALLOGIC.COM
Disclaimer: All the job-related post, ads and information are taken from different sources. The purpose of these posts is to provide the information about new job openings especially for Performance Testing and Engineering so that you can get the benefit to grow your career. People are requested to verify the company and contact person before sharing his/her personal as well as professional details. PerfMatrix is not responsible for any kind of fraud. PerfMatrix does not have any tie-up or legal and illegal connection with any company. In case you found any job post fraud, please write a comment in the comment section or email us @ gd.performance.tester@gmail.com

Job Post 211

Looking for Performance Test Engineer.

Work location: Bangalore.

Skills: Loadrunner, Jmeter, Soap UI, Postman.

Multi Protocols working experience preferred.

ITR filing knowledge added advantage.

BFSI - experience preferred. 

Who is currently serving notice period and not working prefered.

Send me resume to sreesify@gmail.com

Disclaimer: All the job-related post, ads and information are taken from different sources. The purpose of these posts is to provide the information about new job openings especially for Performance Testing and Engineering so that you can get the benefit to grow your career. People are requested to verify the company and contact person before sharing his/her personal as well as professional details. PerfMatrix is not responsible for any kind of fraud. PerfMatrix does not have any tie-up or legal and illegal connection with any company. In case you found any job post fraud, please write a comment in the comment section or email us @ gd.performance.tester@gmail.com

Job Post 209

Disclaimer: All the job-related post, ads and information are taken from different sources. The purpose of these posts is to provide the information about new job openings especially for Performance Testing and Engineering so that you can get the benefit to grow your career. People are requested to verify the company and contact person before sharing his/her personal as well as professional details. PerfMatrix is not responsible for any kind of fraud. PerfMatrix does not have any tie-up or legal and illegal connection with any company. In case you found any job post fraud, please write a comment in the comment section or email us @ gd.performance.tester@gmail.com

Mean Time To Resolution - By New Relic

MTTR - or mean time to resolution - is one of the most widely used metrics in the systems reliability toolbox. Paradoxically, it's also one of the most misunderstood metrics; many developers and operations teams lack a clear vision for how to define MTTR, how to use it, and how to improve it in a consistent and sustainable way.....

Read the full article or download the PDF by referring the below link:

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Job Post 198

Disclaimer: All the job-related post, ads and information are taken from different sources. The purpose of these posts is to provide the information about new job openings especially for Performance Testing and Engineering so that you can get the benefit to grow your career. People are requested to verify the company and contact person before sharing his/her personal as well as professional details. PerfMatrix is not responsible for any kind of fraud. PerfMatrix does not have any tie-up or legal and illegal connection with any company. In case you found any job post fraud, please write a comment in the comment section or email us @ gd.performance.tester@gmail.com

JMeter + Influx + Grafana

Load testing gives you the opportunity to gain insights into how your website or app will perform when it comes under heavy use. With this information, you will understand how effectively to optimize your application for such traffic. Apache JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana is one of the most relevant and easy to configure set-up. But how? you come to know by reading Idris Lawal's article:

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Disclaimer: All the job-related post, ads and information are taken from different sources. The purpose of these posts is to provide the information about new job openings especially for Performance Testing and Engineering so that you can get the benefit to grow your career. People are requested to verify the company and contact person before sharing his/her personal as well as professional details. PerfMatrix is not responsible for any kind of fraud. PerfMatrix does not have any tie-up or legal and illegal connection with any company. In case you found any job post fraud, please write a comment in the comment section or email us @ gd.performance.tester@gmail.com

Splunk - Logs, Metrics and Traces

For a Splunk learner, this could be a good video to understand the difference between Splunk - Logs, Metrics and Traces. Refer to the link to watch the video:

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Job Post 164

Hiring for Performance Test Lead (NFT Lead) with hands on experience of 4 to 6 years in LoadRunner and JMeter.

Location post-Covid: Viman Nagar (Pune)

Responsibilities:

· Extensive knowledge and experience of Performance testing and monitoring tools – LoadRunner and JMeter.
· Has experience in memory and CPU thread analysis, GC overview, experience with few incidences.
· Has a very good understanding of Infra, hands-on experience in setting up servers, Containers, pipelines, CI.
· Testing Coordination experience –Full understanding of End to End performance test process and experience on how and when to engage different teams.
· Experience with Continuous Integration with Performance Testing.

Skill set required:
· Exposure with Linux systems
· Experience in creating NFR's
· Experience with performance tuning of NoSQL Databases
· Good programming experience with any programming languages, preferably C#
· Excellent English communication skills (both verbal & written)

Note: Opening for IMMEDIATE joiners only.

Please share your CV on careers@ivavsys.com with Subject “NFT Lead - Performance Testing"

Disclaimer: All the job-related post, ads and information are taken from different sources. The purpose of these posts is to provide the information about new job openings especially for Performance Testing and Engineering so that you can get the benefit to grow your career. People are requested to verify the company and contact person before sharing his/her personal as well as professional details. PerfMatrix is not responsible for any kind of fraud. PerfMatrix does not have any tie-up or legal and illegal connection with any company. In case you found any job post fraud, please write a comment in the comment section or email us @ gd.performance.tester@gmail.com

Garbage Collector Cheat Sheet - By Kranthi K Raavi

The garbage collector is one of the important topics in Performance Engineering. Kranthi K Raavi has published an informative cheat sheet related to Garbage Collector. A simple figure layout summarizes about GC algorithms and their methods. Refer to the article link:

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JMeter Runtime Result in Non-GUI mode

JMeter is an open-source tool and nowadays it is in high demand. Day-by-day new plug-ins extend the features of JMeter and make it a stronger competitor for the existing licensed tool. Previously we have seen that the addition of HTML report makes the result analysis detailed and colourful. Now this time Taurus (an open-source tool) is enhancing JMeter feature especially when the test is running in Non-GUI mode. What is that feature? Read the full detail in this LinkedIn post shared by Mohd Nazim Siddhique:

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Browser Simulation in JMeter

Again, the last day of the working week!

JMeter; which is overtaking the other PT tools and capturing the market of performance testing faster than any other competitor; is now in high demand. Eventually, I got an article in which the writer throws light on the demand for JMeter which is a really impressive figure. Let's come to our original discussion. Since JMeter demand is increasing day-by-day, then I would recommend you to grab at least basic knowledge of JMeter which is very easy to grab because it is an open-source tool which you download, install and practice at home.

Today's Friday funda covers "How does JMeter simulate real browser?" and gives you the almost exact result as similar as an application gives to the real-world user. I have also covered some of the basic elements of JMeter which must be known to you if you are a performance tester. So, refer to the article to enhance your knowledge.

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Deployment Guide of Dynatrace on AWS

Wow... what a great start of Friday morning! 

I read a very informative article related to Dynatrace which is a leading monitoring and profiling agent-based tool. This article will give you a quick deployment guide of Dynatrace on AWS which comprises of:

• Architecture and details
• Step by Step deployment guide
• AWS CloudFormation templates that automate the deployment 

Refer to the Article Link.

Additional Details: Dynatrace is a rapidly growing profiling solution and used for extremely high and moderate load application and provides transaction-level analysis. 

Features of Dynatrace

Last Friday, I have shared a post related to how quickly you can set-up Dynatrace and start monitoring AWS based application. Continue with the same tool (Dynatrace), today I am sharing a post stating the features of Dynatrace. Must read. Refer the link:

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Dynatrace is a powerful monitoring and profiling agent-based tool. It is widely used to identify the bottleneck and carry-out deep root cause analysis up to code level.

Related Topic: Agentless vs Agent-based monitoring tool

PerfMeter - A Cloud Based Performance Testing Tool

Good Morning! How was your weekend? Hopefully, you might enjoy a lot!

Again, you are back to work and definitely feel either stressful or boring, so let's do a fresh start of this week. Why do not we discuss something new? Yes, sometime back I tweeted and listed many cloud-based performance testing tools. Under the same category, a new tool has been born named "PerfMeter". As of now, the beta version of PerfMeter has been released, so if you think to use this online performance testing tool, verify your test result before publishing to the client. You can get more details on the same by referring to below link:

PerfMeter

You can also get a 90 days trial package after signing-up, so explore this new tool.

Open-source Tool Demand

In today's world, trends are changing so rapidly and if we want to go with trend then we need to adopt the new environment and changes and keep ourself up to date. I am continuously watching the interest of companies how much they can pay for performance testing. Yes, there is some degradation in the figures for the paid performance testing tool. In the past and even now some companies or clients do not rely on open-source tools like JMeter. But see the below graph, you will find that some of the open-source tools are searched most on the internet. I am not sure about the current demand, uses and how much clients believe on the paid and open-source tool. But these stats show the start of a new era.

Today, I got another article having a list of Performance Testing open-source tool. Check what are the other performance testing tools apart from JMeter and gather the knowledge at least one among them.

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